Gummy Boy—Don't Leave ! (Extended Version)

Illustration by Señor Salme

[JackSardonic]

_"The country of workers and peasants is storming the stellar ocean!"_

[cradoccrandall]

born too late to explore the world, but born too early to explore the stars

[thebicameralmonk]

‘Let me show you this, ’ he insisted, before I left. A trio of small, beige items came out of a cabinet and were laid out on a cloth. They had been white once, but age had darkened them like bone. Their surfaces were worn, but I could still make out the trace of silver on the engine bells, and the red markings along the fuselage.

‘Toys?’ I said.

He nodded.

‘Playthings. Models made for a child’s amusement.’

‘They are of weapon rockets? Missiles?’

‘Rockets, ’ he said. ‘For spaceflight. Don’t look so surprised, Mamzel Raeside. The first steps from Terra were said to have been taken using chemical rockets.’

‘I am aware of history, sir, even though the detail of the oldest eras is lost in the mists. But really? Vehicles this crude?’

He smiled again.

‘I do not think they ever flew, ’ he said. ‘I think these are simplified models of possible machines. A primitive idea of flight. But I show them to you because of their age. Your employer is very fond of the oldest things.’

‘How old?’ I asked.

‘It can only be estimated, ’ he said. ‘They pre-date the ages of Strife and Technology. I think they come from the Pre-System Age, from the first millennium of the Age of Terra.’

‘What? Thirty-eight or thirty-nine thousand years ago?’

‘Perhaps. Vessels like this first took our species into the unknown, ’ he said. ‘They first took us Blackwards. The family name behind this business comes from that outward urge.’

‘I think my employer will appreciate these, ’ I said. ‘What price do you ask?’

‘I will write it down, ’ he said.

‘And the markings on the side of the rocket ships, ’ I asked. ‘The letters in red? What does C.C.C.P. mean?’

‘No one knows that, ’ he said. ‘No one remembers any more.’

[BDBK]

Since I heard this song in the sovietmix of New soviet wave, it is now one of my favorite, nice extend too

[Tiam]

Forgive us Yura, we screwed everything up!

[cukcan]

R.I.P YURI GAGARIN
You are our hero!

[akifhossain]

This sounds like the hopes and dreams of humanity

[ApocGenesis]

We could have gone to space together...we could have seen the stars...

I'm sorry things went so wrong

[blacksun]

Hey people! Do you really think that this future never came? Just listen this track and it's happens. I swear.

[masonwright]

As someone who loves space flight and music, This song gives me so many emotions. When I hear this song all I can think of is that famous photo of Yuri Gagarin smiling in his helmet. It was that smile that told people that space is worth something to witness yourself. Something so magnificent and life changing. That’s how I feel listening to this. As if I had witnessed a bit of space myself.

[PimpyGDawg]

The year is 1987. A young Natalya is driven by car from her modest Moscow apartment to go to the Baikonur cosmodrome. The ride is a mesmerizing journey through Kazakhstan, her car winding through a constantly changing tapestry of desolate steppes, rugged mountains, and vast, unending horizons, where the sense of solitude and the breathtaking diversity of the landscape left her in a state of tranquil introspection.

She finally arrives at Baikonur, and a sense of wonder and amazement washes over her, her jaw dropping as she gazes in awe at the vast expanse of the cosmodrome and its the towering rocket structures. Passing by a picture of Yuri Gagarin, a palpable sense of history and exploration hangs in the air, filling her heart with a profound sense of inspiration and curiosity about the boundless mysteries of the cosmos.

She sees her father. She knows he is to get into that rocket to live in the Mir space station for almost a year. She knows what happened to those poor Americans in the Challenger blast last year. She hugs her father goodbye. She knows he has to go, but she still whispers into his ear: Don't leave.

[Diwana]

There is that strange melancholy in the song, it tugs at your heart.

[ka-]

God bless u comrade for extending this

[george]

The innocence and purity of young pioneers dreaming of a bright future, led by Yuri Gagarin on a Road to the Stars.
You will understand it, just listen to the song and you will hear how they are communicating together.

[nairilla]

Just imagining enjoying this masterpiece on live stage with big screens showing pictures and videos of soviet cosmonauts age....

[smoothbrian.]

This song always makes me think of Laika, the space dog. It’s the title and the bitter-sweet melody.

[bassmaniac]

This artist is underrated.. criminally underrated ❤️❤️ this music evokes a thousand emotions.

[CareFreeWherever]

I love the way they got the music to sound like two people crying

[maimetechy]

This song reminds me of being a kid never wanting to grow up, but then growing up and seeing it's like being a kid but more depressing as you figure out how money hungry people are.

[fftalsa]

Russia: *names covid vaccine Sputnik V*
me: **plays **#sovietwave** in max volume**